Topic: Mobility

In The Netherlands, the ‘Stint’, an electric transport vehicle that is used to transport children will return after a ban. The ban was put in place last year after four children were killed when a...Read more

In September the Birmingham City Council will ban vehicles from roads that surround six schools. The roads will be closed for about an hour at the start and end of each school day. The goal...Read more

From May 6-12 2019, the United Nations celebrated the fifth iteration of its Global Road Safety Week with the theme of leadership. The topic highlights the role that elected leaders have in enforcing and implementing...Read more

Spin and Better Block Foundation are calling on designers, urbanists and anyone who cares about safe and livable streets, to submit ideas for a new generation of multimodal parklets. Winning projects will be rolled out...Read more

In European cities, pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists make up 70% of road deaths. This is according to the European Transport Safety Council, who are authors of a new report. The report also states tackling urban...Read more

During the Child in the City International seminar in Antwerp, Sven De Visscher was the moderator of the Parallel Session on Sustainable Mobility. In this article, he provides a summary of the presentations and ideas...Read more

Thirty-six people died in traffic crashes in Washington, D.C., last year, a 20% increase from 2017. Eight people, six of whom were walking or biking, have already been killed this year, prompting a major public rally...Read more

Some schools in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, see more than a dozen of their students injured or killed in road crashes every year. Haphazard development in the nation’s capital paired with a growing number of...Read more

Jens Aerts will give his keynote presentation at the Child in the City International Seminar in Antwerp next month. His keynote is titled ‘Shaping a sustainable urban future for and by children’. In this interview,...Read more

The Belgian municipality of Hoogstraten is making primary school routes safer. The municipality won the Flemish Road Safety Award 2019 last month and they are in the process of redesigning the area around eight schools....Read more

In Bangladesh the Child Rights Advocacy Coalition reported that 627 children were casualties of road accidents in 2018. Meaning the number of child casualties almost doubled from the previous year. This has led to school...Read more

While India accounts for only 2 percent of global motor vehicles, it contributes over 12 per cent of global road traffic deaths. Around 150,000 people lose their lives on India’s roads every year, making them...Read more

As cities strive to improve the quality of life for their residents, many are working to promote walking and biking. Such policies make sense, since they can, in the long run, lead to less traffic,...Read more

To harness the benefits of new mobility, decision-makers should establish clear guidelines that prioritize safe, efficient and equitable transportation for all.
More than 300 new bike-share services were launched worldwide last year. Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Didi Chuxing...Read more

Our cities are rapidly expanding, and with them motorization is increasing at an unchecked pace. Unless the global community takes meaningful strides to address the impact of these trends on the most vulnerable in our...Read more

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Parents will need much more support if a new law banning the smacking of children in Wales is successfully introduced.
That’s the view of a group of Welsh Assembly members (AMs), who also say that a...Read more

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